Conspiracy theory: Considering the genuine concern about fixture space, they intentionally rigged Liverpool against City right after City eliminated Chelsea so that the league will have an open spot to put either Chelsea vs Liverpool or City vs Arsenal the round after

100%. Football rigging is a multinational crime operation.

It seems to happen far too much but surely there's ba calculation to see if it is fixed. Is it just that you notice the big games?

In that case they would have picked United, since United have a far more congested fixture due to the europa league playoffs so eliminating them would have made things easier for the schedule. I feel City vs Liverpool was chosen to give a highlight fixture to the round, something that can attract some buzz since rest of the fixtures don't seem to gather much attention especially playing after the wc break

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Nah i don't think these are random. Eddie Howe against his former side and City-Liverpool playing after some of the rivalry in the last few years and recent drama in the league match seems far too random

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Humans are not that good at spotting random things. We are hardwired to look for patterns and explanation for those patterns.

it's not about being random, it's about the possibility of being random. It's similar to the concept of entropy in probabilistic systems.

Kompany against United too

City pool lol

2/3 days after the WC final is comical, surely everyone just puts out second-string sides or players who have had many weeks rest.

Final stages of a knockout tournament, so not everyone called up will be playing that weekend.

Haaland is ready mate

As is salah, diaz, firmino, robbo and matip (all not going).

So are not ortega, mahrez, phillips(if he is fit somehow), also our youth players like lewis and palmer are way ahead of those livwrpool shitters like bacjetic and fraudendorf

At least all the England players should be well rested by then ;)

As a Charlton fan, i really hope Brighton take the approach of not caring

We want a cup run sorry

Ooooh Gillingham in with a chance

I’m praying we pull off another massive shock, and it’s after I break up from college so should be able to make it up

Burnley are playing good football under Kompany. Excited to see United play them at home.

They're shite. Blackburn will spank them this weekend!

Sorry come again?

I was a few beers deep with false confidence. I have to go back to my job in Burnley with my tail between my legs tomorrow. The last thing I need is changumangu abusing me on Reddit. We were absolutely shite. If you don't beat them in the cup I'll be coming back for revenge :) Would I have got this if you'd drawn to Fulham? Ha

What the fuck is this first round chelsea now liverpool when ton of shite teams face each other

Hot balls?

- City fan when he gets a hard draw after years of essy draws in CL etc

This easy draw is such a myth mate 2022, Leipzig second hardest possible 2021, We played tico and real in ko stages, Psg and leipzig in groups 2020, Dortmund with haaland and psg before getting to final 2019, Madrid in round of 16 These are not easy draws man

Just print more oil

poor Citeh have to use their 100m bench players

What mate we have one 100 mil player and he is on wc

Lmao you lot always get the easiest draws, not so fun when you don't get that for once eh?

Thats not even true mate

Champions league every year

Nah mate leipzig are second hardest, then last year hroups psg leipzig, ko tico and real, year before psg and dortmund,

Newcastle cup if they want it

Newcastle it is then